Throughout the project, we have really struggled to find a routine or plan. (as you guys know) We have finally gotten into the scheme of things, and we think that we have found a good daily exercise! Now that we are already more than half way through this project, we can't believe it. It has gone by so fast. To start off, we have not been running as much. We have been focusing on other goals, because running was a priority for the first couple of weeks. We all set different goals for running, which worked out good because we are all on different levels. To show you our improvement, we wrote down our times at the start and then wrote down our new times.
Emmy's starting mile time was 10.00 minutes. She brought that down to 8.27 minutes. Mya's starting mile time was 9.40 minutes. She brought that down to 8.00 minutes. Emily's starting mile time was 8.00 minutes. She brought that down to 7.25 minutes. So, because running is done, we have a new plan that we are going to introduce to you. We have already started it but because we have been so busy with other things for school, we have really struggled to keep everything on time. Our new plan consists of eating healthy, drinking water instead of other drinks, staying positive, stressing less, and working out (but we all work out at different places). Emmy works out at Planet Fitness, Mya works out at Twins Soccer, and Emily works out at Torque. The newest thing that we wanted to bring to your attention is Emily's garage! She just got a new workout space, and kicked her dads car out of the garage. We have all met up to go over and work out for our project about 3 times now. It is super fun to have someone's house to go workout at because we can all workout together! We are excited to show you our improvement through the new few weeks, as we come close to the end of the Genius hour project!
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It is hard to believe we are already a month into this project. Every week our group comes together to figure out what our blog post will be. Each week this topic becomes a bigger challenge, so this week we decided to write about those challenges.
We strive for our blog posts to be interesting to the readers, because we know how hard it is to stay focused while reading a post. Our project is about staying healthy and fit, and there are a limited amount of discussion points we can write about. We have written about our progress, our health, and our water intake and amount of sleep. Writing about these is so hard because we do not want to be repetitive of our previous posts. We fear that if we keep writing about health it will get even more boring, so we were talking about including some videos in our blog post. We also thought about taking pictures of our food and possibly adding healthy recipes that we enjoy. One thing that has stayed consistent over these past four week is our motivation, we all have put a lot of effort into this project and hopefully we will get the final result we have been working for. A little update from each group member: Emily has really been staying motivated with her water intake. She also has been getting her school work done earlier in the day so she can make sure to get to bed at a decent hour in order to get a healthy amount of sleep. Emmy has been going to planet fitness everyday and cutting her mile time down, she also has increased her water intake. Mya has been increasing the amount of miles she is running and eating healthier foods. If you have any suggestions on some topics for our blog post, let us know! This week we have actually been very consistent. We have been to Tanglewood to run and walk (sometimes) 4/5 days this week. We have been eating a lot better and watching what we put in our bodies. While we have been running and walking most days we have also been doing at home workouts to strengthen our muscles. While exercising and fueling our bodies with what we need is good for us and helps us improve in what our goal is, we also need to have a good sleep schedule. Sleep is important because it enables the body to repair and be fit and ready for another day. Getting adequate rest also helps prevent excess weight gain. You need about 8-10 hours of sleep every night. Your sleep schedule and bedtime habits affect your mental sharpness, performance, emotional well-being and energy level. It's best if you can maintain a consistent time for waking and going to bed. We have been working on that. We have all been going to sleep at a normal time and waking up at a normal time. For all of us we have seen changes in our mood and well being. We are more upbeat and feel less fatigue which is a huge change. Now onto our water intake. Coming off of sodas and sweet tea and coffee is hard. You need that caffeine in you to work. We have been doing a good job on our water drinking. We haven’t cut out everything that isn’t water, but we are doing that at a slow pace. Everyday drinking less and less caffeine high drinks. This week we have been consistent in this too. Instead of grabbing a coke, we grabbed an ice cold cup of water. It’s not ideal, but that’s the only way that we are going to be able to cut them off. This week we have done pretty good with eating healthier. But, the sad thing is, no running. Sucks right!! Because last week we set our goals and started a plan, we decided to start running in about another week instead. We did recognize that all of us are on different levels when working out. We started off walking at Tanglewood, and then it got to a run. Of course it was not fast pace yet, but we are improving!
So, in this blog we are going to tell you our plan because to be honest, we did not have much to talk about. This week we have been eating healthier. For an example, Emmy loves to go to Chic-fil-a (like everyday) but instead, she has been eating at home more and eating more greens like salad. Emily has been eating more meals instead of snacking on things throughout the day. And, Mya has been drinking more water while working on a healthier diet like all of us! We think that it is extremely important to eat healthy and stay in shape because it makes you feel better as a person! Next week, our plan is to start getting back on track with working out and finding a daily routine with making our goal become reached. The other day we were talking to the legend, Mr. Barker, and he told us that we are on a good paced schedule but telling you all what we are doing may sound a little boring. Soon, we will start to include tiktoks of our "daily eating trends" and videos of us after working out to have evidence that we are doing what we say. Another thing that we are trying to do is get more people involved. If anyone wants to give us advice for our project that would be great! We need more goals and would love to have help setting them! |
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